▲ 990 ▼ China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’ (www.wsj.com) submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world 233 comments fedilink hide all child comments Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family
[–] bstix@feddit.dk 218 points 2 years ago (2 children) So.. there'll be a lot of great Chinese punk music soon? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Blackout@kbin.social 53 points 2 years ago (2 children) There was an explosion of Chinese punk/alt bands late 90s/ early 2000s but they gave way to hip hop/pop. Still a decent scene in Beijing. One of my favorite bands from that era is called Wood pushing melon (木推瓜). https://youtu.be/j_dq-tQuNrA?si=3tEzKqRpgVUlm2yn The lead singer left that band and started an incredible tribal folk group called Dawanggang next https://youtu.be/toaZqu_4hMw?si=1XQP0yKpz3rsGTD0 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago Yep. There's a lot of Chinese punk, post-punk, goth, New Wave etc etc etc. sadly, outside of China you don't hear much about it because of the old firewall and of course language barriers. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 7 points 2 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/j_dq-tQuNrA?si=3tEzKqRpgVUlm2yn https://piped.video/toaZqu_4hMw?si=1XQP0yKpz3rsGTD0 Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent [+] intelshill@lemmy.ca -65 points 2 years ago (6 children) Yeah. China's speed running to true communism at a pace I wasn't expecting. There's a legitimate chance for the elimination of scarcity of basic goods in China "soon", which would lead to a flourishing of the arts. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 12 child comments replies: [–] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 61 points 2 years ago Jesse what the fuck are you talking about? permalink fedilink source parent [–] jaybone@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago Surely this is sarcasm. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago That would be awesome permalink fedilink source parent [–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Got any good examples of this? I do know that between 1950 and 2000 poverty and starvation dropped like a stone. I havent been watching closely enough to tell for the past couple decades. I don't mean to sound cynical, but it can be hard to tell what's slavery and what's improvement of living standards through the media and on such short timescales I know theyre installing a ton of solar/wind. Superbundance could happen there and that could be great. I got my fingers crossed. How's agriculture doing? I think they're very well positioned with electric cars and are going to take marketshare from everyone else in that industry. I hope they quit killing the sea and bossing around their neighbors Their effots in Africa are probably going to benefit them greatly. I hope they arent doing to Africa whatthre US did with South America in early/mid 20th century... with the saddling of unpayable debts, extracting resources and installing viscious dictators I read recently OPECy folks are openly conspiring to flood Africas market with cheap and shitty fossil fuel power plants and cars to expand the oil market. It'd be rad someone flooded it with cheaper and better electric cars/heatpumps and renewable power. I wish the US/Europe would permalink fedilink source parent [–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago Lol! This piss-take xD permalink fedilink source parent [+] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Blackout@kbin.social 53 points 2 years ago (2 children) There was an explosion of Chinese punk/alt bands late 90s/ early 2000s but they gave way to hip hop/pop. Still a decent scene in Beijing. One of my favorite bands from that era is called Wood pushing melon (木推瓜). https://youtu.be/j_dq-tQuNrA?si=3tEzKqRpgVUlm2yn The lead singer left that band and started an incredible tribal folk group called Dawanggang next https://youtu.be/toaZqu_4hMw?si=1XQP0yKpz3rsGTD0 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago Yep. There's a lot of Chinese punk, post-punk, goth, New Wave etc etc etc. sadly, outside of China you don't hear much about it because of the old firewall and of course language barriers. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 7 points 2 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/j_dq-tQuNrA?si=3tEzKqRpgVUlm2yn https://piped.video/toaZqu_4hMw?si=1XQP0yKpz3rsGTD0 Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago Yep. There's a lot of Chinese punk, post-punk, goth, New Wave etc etc etc. sadly, outside of China you don't hear much about it because of the old firewall and of course language barriers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [B] 7 points 2 years ago Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/j_dq-tQuNrA?si=3tEzKqRpgVUlm2yn https://piped.video/toaZqu_4hMw?si=1XQP0yKpz3rsGTD0 Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] intelshill@lemmy.ca -65 points 2 years ago (6 children) Yeah. China's speed running to true communism at a pace I wasn't expecting. There's a legitimate chance for the elimination of scarcity of basic goods in China "soon", which would lead to a flourishing of the arts. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 12 child comments replies: [–] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 61 points 2 years ago Jesse what the fuck are you talking about? permalink fedilink source parent [–] jaybone@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago Surely this is sarcasm. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago That would be awesome permalink fedilink source parent [–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Got any good examples of this? I do know that between 1950 and 2000 poverty and starvation dropped like a stone. I havent been watching closely enough to tell for the past couple decades. I don't mean to sound cynical, but it can be hard to tell what's slavery and what's improvement of living standards through the media and on such short timescales I know theyre installing a ton of solar/wind. Superbundance could happen there and that could be great. I got my fingers crossed. How's agriculture doing? I think they're very well positioned with electric cars and are going to take marketshare from everyone else in that industry. I hope they quit killing the sea and bossing around their neighbors Their effots in Africa are probably going to benefit them greatly. I hope they arent doing to Africa whatthre US did with South America in early/mid 20th century... with the saddling of unpayable debts, extracting resources and installing viscious dictators I read recently OPECy folks are openly conspiring to flood Africas market with cheap and shitty fossil fuel power plants and cars to expand the oil market. It'd be rad someone flooded it with cheaper and better electric cars/heatpumps and renewable power. I wish the US/Europe would permalink fedilink source parent [–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago Lol! This piss-take xD permalink fedilink source parent [+] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 61 points 2 years ago Jesse what the fuck are you talking about? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago Surely this is sarcasm. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Got any good examples of this? I do know that between 1950 and 2000 poverty and starvation dropped like a stone. I havent been watching closely enough to tell for the past couple decades. I don't mean to sound cynical, but it can be hard to tell what's slavery and what's improvement of living standards through the media and on such short timescales I know theyre installing a ton of solar/wind. Superbundance could happen there and that could be great. I got my fingers crossed. How's agriculture doing? I think they're very well positioned with electric cars and are going to take marketshare from everyone else in that industry. I hope they quit killing the sea and bossing around their neighbors Their effots in Africa are probably going to benefit them greatly. I hope they arent doing to Africa whatthre US did with South America in early/mid 20th century... with the saddling of unpayable debts, extracting resources and installing viscious dictators I read recently OPECy folks are openly conspiring to flood Africas market with cheap and shitty fossil fuel power plants and cars to expand the oil market. It'd be rad someone flooded it with cheaper and better electric cars/heatpumps and renewable power. I wish the US/Europe would permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago Lol! This piss-take xD permalink fedilink source parent